Title :
Technical overview of VP8, an open source video codec for the web
Author :
Bankoski, Jim ; Wilkins, Paul ; Xu, Yaowu
Author_Institution :
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA, USA
Abstract :
VP8 is an open source video compression format supported by a consortium of technology companies. This paper provides a technical overview of the format, with an emphasis on its unique features. The paper also discusses how these features benefit VP8 in achieving high compression efficiency and low decoding complexity at the same time.
Keywords :
Internet; public domain software; video codecs; video coding; VP8; World Wide Web; open source video codec; open source video compression format; Automatic voltage control; Continuous wavelet transforms; Entropy; Information filters; Quantization; VP8; Video Codec; Web Video; WebM;
Conference_Titel :
Multimedia and Expo (ICME), 2011 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Barcelona
Print_ISBN :
978-1-61284-348-3
Electronic_ISBN :
1945-7871
DOI :
10.1109/ICME.2011.6012227
